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Mamdani Launches Deed Theft Prevention Office With Appointment of Activist Attorney

Newly-appointed Office of Deed Theft Prevention Director Peter White speaks alongside Mayor Zohran Mamdani at The Brooklyn Bank in Bed-Stuy during a press conference about protecting homeowners, April 24, 2026.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Friday established the Office of Deed Theft Prevention and named a longtime homeowner assistance lawyer as its director. Peter White, an attorney who has worked on deed theft litigation, foreclosures, bankruptcy and landlord-tenant disputes, will helm the new office. He most recently worked as a supervising attorney at Access Justice Brooklyn, […]

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Unions Met With Mamdani Team Over Protest ‘Buffer Zone’ Bill

A protester faces off against an NYPD officer on the campus of Columbia University, April 30, 2024.

City Hall officials met last week with union and labor leaders who are pushing Mayor Zohran Mamdani to veto a controversial City Council bill that would establish anti-protest “buffer zones” around schools and educational facilities. A representative of Deputy Mayor for Economic Justice Julie Su met via video call with leaders of more than a […]

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Mamdani’s Municipal Grocery Faces Basket Full of Challenges

Mayor Zohran Mamdani speaks at La Marqueta about plans to open the first city-run grocery store in East Harlem

As she surveyed the packed aisles of her local supermarket on 116th Street in East Harlem, Chelssy T. cast a longing eye towards a vacant lot under the Metro-North tracks that’s the first announced site for one of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s city-owned grocery stores. “Prices have gone up so much,” said Chelssy, 35, a lifelong […]

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Mamdani’s New ‘Rikers Czar’ Helped Design Plan to Close Jail Complex

Then-Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice director Dana Kaplan testifies at a Council hearing on closing Rikers Island

As New York City barrels toward a legally mandated shutdown of Rikers Island after years of delays and fierce opposition, the Mamdani administration has tapped a key architect and booster of the original plan to help see it through. Dana Kaplan, who helped coordinate the city’s blueprint to close the troubled jail complex, has been […]

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Council Member Arrested at Eviction Protest at Disputed Brooklyn Brownstone

Carmella Charrington speaks to reporters at the Jefferson Avenue home in Brooklyn at the center of an eviction fight, April 22, 2026.

An ongoing fight to keep a Brooklyn grandmother in her family home escalated on Wednesday morning when the police arrested Councilmember Chi Ossé as he protested the move. Ossé (D-Brooklyn) was in front of the Bedford-Stuyvesant brownstone with community supporters to prevent longtime resident Carmella Charrington from being evicted when officers from the New York […]

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